An abbreviated version of the syllogism goes like this...
- Freedom of choice means I have the ability to choose to do or to do otherwise.
- Love must be chosen.
- Therefore if I have no freedom of choice I cannot love.
- If the future is closed I cannot do other than what the closed future has in store for me to do, I cannot do otherwise.
- Therefore if the future is closed I have no freedom of choice.
- Therefore if the future is closed I cannot love.
- The inability to love is antithetical to everything Christianity is about.
- Therefore the future cannot be closed if Christianity is true at all.
- Christianity must be true because of the rational impossiibilty of the contrary (I will not establish this point).
- Therefore the future is open.
This logic is iron clad; it cannot be escaped by any rational means. Closed Theism is therefore rationally impossible and since the only logical alternative is Open Theism, it must be the truth.
Resting in Him,
Clete
